Coincidentally, Earth lies right in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the sun. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera. November 2018 verließ Voyager 2 die Heliosphäre, eine gigantische Blase aus geladenen Teilchen, die von der Sonne ausgesendet werden und unser Sonnensystem abgrenzen. Part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System, Voyager 1 was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2.Having operated for 42 years, 10 months and 12 days as of July 17, 2020, the spacecraft still communicates with the Deep Space Network to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. Despite their vast distance, they continue to communicate with NASA daily, still probing the final frontier. It began its Jovian imaging mission in April 1978 when it was about 165 million miles (265 million kilometers) from the planet. This artist's concept puts solar system distances -- and the travels of NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft -- in perspective. Humanity’s farthest and longest-lived spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, achieve 40 years of operation and exploration this August and September. Voyager 1 is a space probe that was launched by NASA on September 5, 1977. One AU is the distance from the Sun to Earth, which is about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers. Earth was a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less than 11 billion miles (about 17.7 billion kilometers) from Earth, or more than 118 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. The scale bar is in astronomical units, with each set distance beyond 1 AU representing 10 times the previous distance.

Humanity’s farthest and longest-lived spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, achieve 40 years of operation and exploration this August and September. Despite their vast distance, they continue to communicate with NASA daily, still probing the final frontier.

An image of the planet Uranus taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 on January 14th 1986 from a distance of approximately 7.8 milllion miles NASA/JPL. It is the only spacecraft to have visited either of these two ice giant planets. Das Voyager-Programm ist ein Forschungsprogramm der NASA zur Erkundung des äußeren Planetensystems und des interstellaren Raums.Es umfasst Planung, Bau und Forschungsmission der beiden Raumsonden Voyager 1 und Voyager 2.Diese starteten im … NASA's Voyager 1 was launched after Voyager 2, but because of a faster route, it exited the asteroid belt earlier than its twin, having overtaken Voyager 2 on Dec. 15, 1977. Am 5. NASA's Voyager 2 probe, currently on a journey toward interstellar space, has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system. Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets.Part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1, on a trajectory that took longer to reach Jupiter and Saturn but enabled further encounters with Uranus and Neptune.